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F
''Will be @ my favourite pub in clarkenwell after 7 30pm.''

If the Jerusalem Tavern, it has now been renamed Holy Tavern.

csd
''FTSE100 companies, which is why the index has failed to grow like the Dow Jones''

I have already explained - you cannot compare the two - they operate in a completely different way.
Just an example, Berkshire Hathaway and Facebook are in the top 8 US companies by market cap - neither are in the Dow 30. The Dow uses a share price in the index calculation.
Companies are chosen to go in the Dow 30. FTSE 100 companies are automatically determined by market cap.

Any number of shares able to be bought over the 4 Billion level will be a bonus over what I was hoping for.

vol
'' or USA say jump and we say how high , lol ,lol''

Dow up 0.3%
Ftse up 1.4%

Ret
''long wait for my div hand out of £2.5k to offset ''

If you think a fair value is 55p, then there is an investment waiting for your consideration with the £2,500 proceeds.

csd
A ftse100 company buying back shares does not increase the market cap so therefore will not affect the level of the ftse 100
Buybacks will have a share price differential benefit.
Dow Jones is affected by change in share prices.

csd
''The FTSE (100) has been a lame investment over the past 20-odd years compared to the US ''

FTSE 100 companies are chosen purely on the size of market cap with the level of the FTSE 100 being the total market capitalisation of the constituent companies and the index value.
The higher the market cap of a constituent the higher weighting it has.

Dow Jones index does not work like this.

Also the yield on the ftse100 is a lot more, which can obviously be reinvested and thereby increasing the overall return over a longer period of lets say 20 years.

btw a share buyback has nothing to do with what the market values a business at on a daily basis.

KD
''Assuming approximately 7% buyback, a dividend of 2.15 pence next year will not be a real progressive dividend.''

If the investment in Lloyds shares reduces the number by 6%, a 6% increase shouldn't be a disappointment to a shareholder, but I am sure there would be the usual whingers.
If the shares are still valued favourably as measured against shareholder equity then this would more easier enable a further investment in Lloyds shares of a simalar size to the current one .
btw any increase in payment per share is progressive, not matter how the increase has been helped. You will have to wait until the half year to see if the dividend payment has been progressed

A901
'' have a rant, whatever, and you systematically pull every comment out and pick it to bits.''

I only pull the nonsense to bits like your comment above - what nonsense it is - meaningless.

good to know the number of numbskulls on the board (they tick themselves off)

psk
not invested in Barclays so I am not following

f
''you only log in once the market is closed''

J46 is busy most days, up and down a ladder - he is a hod carrier

Falk

J46 doesn't invest in shares - same as Wids (Worldwide Institutional Destruction of Society)

J46 and people like him cannot bear the thought of others making investments - he is here simply to disrupt.

mach
''eventually he will go away, like all trolls do.''
like.
I am going nowhere - troll? - what you mean is that anyone who takes exception to nonsense, lies etc some don't

Lloyds stopped the downward trend today at least for those of you concerned about that -
I say lower the better whilst shares are being bought on behalf of shareholders.

WB
why do people who have taken an interest say they don't care.
You and people like you should not take an interest if you didn't care

WB
why do people who have taken an interest say they don't care.
You and people like you should not take an interest if you didn't care

AstraZeneca now over £106 a share - shame I sold some at about £58 and £66

T
pensioners have not been robbed - the wage element in the triple lock was dropped due to the artificially high increases in wages as the UK came out of lockdown/furlough.
State pension increases are set in September but implemented many months later, meaning at the moment inflation running at a much higher level than the pension increase.
This September it may be the case that inflation is at say 8% but by the time the increase in pensions are paid in 2023 inflation could be at 3%.

MB
'' 52% of the British public voted for rich people to not pay their way. This is the will of the people''

GET OVER IT - dckhead